I got in on one of the Beta tests and have seen steadily decreasing outages (practically zero now) and increasing up/down speeds with an average 25 to 40 ms latency.
No problems with movies, email, and VOIP telephone. It is subject to rain fade, and has a built in heater to melt snow/ice off of it. I'm a household of one; multiple high demand devices operating at the same time might be an issue for those with families.
So easy to set up: literally aim at the sky and plug it in. You can connect a switch/router to the unit with one of their accessories and run your whole home network with it.
Handy to have for the "10 Days of Darkness". And you get peace of mind knowing you are helping Elon get to Mars and not supporting a bloated internet provider like Comcast, Spectrum or Google.
It does require AC (120 volt wall outlet); if you have an inverter that plugs into a car cigarette lighter or connects directly to a battery you're in business. Hopefully the people of NC are able to salvage batteries from their cars if they don't have power.
multiple high demand devices operating at the same time might be an issue for those with families.
talked to a cable internet installer while he was setting me up. told me about this call he got where a lady was complaining about slow internet speeds. when he gets there, he checks everything, and he can't figure out why it's running so slow, then he notices an ipad that's updating it's software.
On a hunch, he asks how many tablets she has.
Spoiler alert: she had 6-8 of them, and she was updating all of them at the same time. 🤣
In the Philippines, in 2017 we were using a WiFi hotspot device in the Bukid (Mountain) where we have a house. Barely good enough to check e-mail, it suddenly wasn't even able to do that. Come to find out there were at least ten people leeching off my internet. Everyone near our house is related...
I'm using Starlink to send this message.
I got in on one of the Beta tests and have seen steadily decreasing outages (practically zero now) and increasing up/down speeds with an average 25 to 40 ms latency.
No problems with movies, email, and VOIP telephone. It is subject to rain fade, and has a built in heater to melt snow/ice off of it. I'm a household of one; multiple high demand devices operating at the same time might be an issue for those with families.
So easy to set up: literally aim at the sky and plug it in. You can connect a switch/router to the unit with one of their accessories and run your whole home network with it.
Handy to have for the "10 Days of Darkness". And you get peace of mind knowing you are helping Elon get to Mars and not supporting a bloated internet provider like Comcast, Spectrum or Google.
It does require AC (120 volt wall outlet); if you have an inverter that plugs into a car cigarette lighter or connects directly to a battery you're in business. Hopefully the people of NC are able to salvage batteries from their cars if they don't have power.
talked to a cable internet installer while he was setting me up. told me about this call he got where a lady was complaining about slow internet speeds. when he gets there, he checks everything, and he can't figure out why it's running so slow, then he notices an ipad that's updating it's software.
On a hunch, he asks how many tablets she has.
Spoiler alert: she had 6-8 of them, and she was updating all of them at the same time. 🤣
Kek!
In the Philippines, in 2017 we were using a WiFi hotspot device in the Bukid (Mountain) where we have a house. Barely good enough to check e-mail, it suddenly wasn't even able to do that. Come to find out there were at least ten people leeching off my internet. Everyone near our house is related...
Sounds like you need to change the password every few days. What a bummer.